A MUM stole a purse from the Sticky Fingers Children’s Party Centre at Saltney when more children than she had expected turned up.

Simone Dee Eastwood, 38, a mother of two, had booked a child’s birthday party at the centre.

But she panicked when three more children than she expected were there.

She did not have the additional £30 required and on the spur of the moment stole the purse from inside the centre at Sabre House, Bridge Street.

Eastwood was caught on CCTV and arrested by the police.

Eastwood of Llwyni Drive, Connah’s Quay, admitted theft on July 25, which put her in breach of a suspended prison sentence.

Eastwood was placed on an eight-week curfew which means she must remain indoors between 7pm and 7am. She was also sent on an enhanced thinking skills course.

Bethan Jones, defending, said her client should have attended a thinking skills course earlier but through no fault of her own had not – no course had been available.

The purse had been recovered and nothing had been taken from it, said Miss Jones.